Friday afternoon Apple links: Cthulhu edition

This Friday's Apple links preps us for the September 9 Apple Event by not …

Happy Friday! As the week comes to an end, you may already be sick of hearing rumors relating to Apple's September 9 event, so we have a handful of links for you to take your mind off of it for a while. Check 'em out:

The iPhone has "siphoned off sales from other smartphone vendors," according to a note from Morgan Keegan analyst Tavis McCourt. The analyst says that Apple's device was the top-selling phone at "most" AT&T retail stores in North America and the UK in July, followed by the Blackberry Curve are the Samsung Blackjack 2, Palm Centro, and Blackberry Pearl.

Adobe plans to show its next major update to the Creative Suite, CS4, to the public on September 23. The webcast will be taking place at several times throughout the day (in North America, it'll be on at 9am Eastern and Pacific times) if you want to check out what Adobe has in store.

If you haven't noticed, fans of Cthulhu really f-ing love Cthulhu. Mobile game developer Digital Jokers now plans to release a new game, Call of Cthulhu: The Darkness Within for the iPhone. According to Macworld UK, the adventure game "follows the story of a group of archaeologists and paleontologists from Miskatonic University who are sent to explore the ruins of an ancient city that appear in the sands of Egypt following a violent earthquake."

Macworld (US) highlights a Mac OS X Hints tip that lets you gain full control of the mouse and keyboard under Leopard's screen sharing feature. There are actually a handful of tips in that link, so you should just go check it out if you use screen sharing often.

The lightsaber iPhone app may be making a triumphant return to the App Store later this month to coincide with the launch of a new console game, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. The new and improved app will apparently include multiple lightsaber colors, among other things.

The US military is using iPods as translators to and from Arabic while out in Iraq with the help of an application called VCommunicator Mobile. "While troops quickly pick up a basic vocabulary of phrases, the VCommunicator Mobile accelerates the process, as troops can use it to help them learn more Arabic (or Dari or Phusto)," according to Strategy Page.

That's it for today. Have a great weekend, and if you're a developer attending C4 in Chicago, maybe I'll see you at some of the afterparties tonight and tomorrow!